Available now in ebook and trade paperback editionsMore Alternative Truths: Stories from the Resistance explores the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
Many of the stories ask: What has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our minds and our votes to return to a rational democracy, of, by, and for the people? No one knows for sure. But these top-tier authors from around the world, from Philip Brian Hall to Bruno Lombardi to Jane Yolen give us their visions. (Click here to see the TOC and meet the authors.)
You will find the witticisms of Jim Wright exploring Donald Trump as Moses after presentation of the Ten Commandments and the genius of Edd Vick and Manny Frishberg as they give us Trump, tweeting his way across the solar system.
There are serious visions as well. Brad Cozzens’s brilliant poem “America Once Beautiful” reaches poignantly from today’s reality into some salvageable vision of tomorrow that borrows from yesterday’s values. The poets in this volume, including Brad, Jane Yolen, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, and C.A. Chesse, bring new meanings to words and leave you thoughtful.
If you want a fun romp, jump to “Wishcraft.com” by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, which explores why political hacks should never annoy witches. Or, if you prefer, K.G. Anderson’s “The Right Man for the Job,” in which a post-corporeal LBJ rides to the rescue.
There is something for everyone. Coping. How do we cope? This painful question is explored by three of our best and brightest. Jill Zeller, a woman who won’t write of Elves, has given us “A Woman Walks Into a Bar,” an affirmation of our own choices. Coping is also explored brilliantly by Karin L. Frank and Kerri Leigh Grady in their stories “HMO” and “Final Delivery.”
There are so many great stories in this collection, I can truly recommend them all. If, however, you can only read one, then read “Small Courages” and let it touch you, maybe bring tears of hope, as you see our world through the eyes of a child and find that we can survive. We will survive.
More Alternative Truthsis currently available in ebook and paperback editions.
ISBN-10: 0998963437
ISBN-13: 978-0998963433
Editors: Lou J Berger, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown
Cover art: Thom Coyle
Publisher: B Cubed Press
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